ejecting cd rom
 

Hey guys, i want to force eject a cd rom but it's giving me this error
linux:/home/mark # eject /media/dvdrecorder/
umount: /media/dvdrecorder: device is busy
umount: /media/dvdrecorder: device is busy


does anyone know what to do?

Thanks

Do you have anything accessing the directory it's mounted to?

I don't believe so, i only have my browser open

No other terminals with you sitting in the directory, etc?

What is the output of mount? Are any other processes using the cd/dvd rom?

nope, i made sure the terminal closed that was accessing the directory, and now it just gives one message that the device is busy.. when i input mount, i get this:
mark@linux:~> mount
/dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda3 on /home type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/hdd on /media/dvdrecorder type iso9660 (ro)
mark@linux:~>

Try:

umount /dev/hdd

In a terminal and closing all other open applications, including your browser.

wierd, i did that command already as root and it gave me that error, but now it started to work.

Thanks!

for future reference, is there a command ( i believe it was grep?) that lets you see what applications is using what device?

lsof can tell you what applications or users are using files, not sure about devices.

also try as root "fuser -m /mnt/cdrom" it should display a number this is the pid or process id. type cmd "kill pid" . a last resort is just reboot.

Thanks a lot!